In the blink of an eye, it is already the sixtieth year of coming to this world......

Zhang Yuan sat in a comfortable seat, enjoying the wonderful sunshine, and the hundreds of old people in front of him were the captain, first mate, second officer, and some sailors who finally sailed that time.

The guests were full, staggered, and had a good time. It's always a joy to spend time with old friends.

At the wine table, people reminisced, recalling the difficulties encountered in the final voyage, and many sailors suffered from depression during such a long voyage; Still others even wanted to seize control of the ship and go back halfway.

But these difficulties were all defeated by a sunny continent that was finally seen......

Now nostalgic for the past, Zhang Yuan can still recall the high-pitched screams when he discovered the New World.

Man is such a creature!

"Why didn't Dolif come?" Zhang Yuan asked one of the old men.

"That guy, because of his uncontrolled life, died on a woman's belly! It's not enough to maintain it at such an old age. ”

"It's a shame......"

"Where's Asov?"

"Old age is dead, after all, he is over seventy years old."

Zhang Yuan shook his head, didn't care so much, and raised his wine glass, "So, old guys, cheers!" ”

"Cheers!"

Hundreds of people shouted together to celebrate the final victory of the great voyage. Such a celebration ceremony is held every five years, and the venue of the banquet is, of course, in Zhang Yuan's duke's palace.

Looking up at the sky, the morning sun in the distance hangs in the sky, never setting.

Yes, in this land, the rising sun hangs in the sky, not the setting sun.

The Sunshine Continent that countless people yearn for is here!

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This is the Hoffman continent, a continent named after him!

Since this legendary fleet brought the information of the New World back to the old road more than thirty years ago, a gold rush has sprung up in this sunny land. Countless ordinary people, wealthy nobles took huge risks, crossed most of the planet, and came to this huge land to open up wasteland.

Due to the imperfection of the system from the beginning, the area is a complete state of chaos, full of violence, gore, and crime.

The changes of the times are turbulent, the process of history is advancing by leaps and bounds, and almost all of Zhang Yuan's efforts are devoted to this new continent.

Thirty years have passed......

The Gold Rush is still going on, and the crime rate in New Kalundborg, the largest city in Hoffmann's continent, has slowly decreased and it has become a very livable city.

Most of the old crew members have mixed well over the years, after all, the New World is full of waste, there are many opportunities, planting, aquaculture, steel, coal, chemicals, electrical, and the newly discovered oil industry, as long as it is not self-seeking degenerate, survival is definitely not a problem.

And Zhang Yuan, the famous "duke", will also take care of these old acquaintances to a certain extent.

Of course, there are also some people who have gained a lot of wealth and honor at once, and they are lost in it and can't control their desires.

If virtue is not matched, he will suffer from it, such a person has seen more, and Zhang Yuan will not take care of it too much.

A group of people drank and chatted about the past, and when they were older, they always liked to reminisce about the past. Including so-and-so dying on a woman's belly, so-and-so's son taking drugs, gambling, losing all his family property, etc., so-and-so is already a successful businessman.

Time flies, life is impermanent, and most of the old guys at the beginning have passed away, which is really embarrassing! A person's fate is predestined by God to a certain extent, but a large part is also in their own hands. What can others do if they can't even control their own fate?

After the feast, a young deacon whispered in the rear, "Lord Duke, the Queen's fleet is about to arrive at the port. ”

"Let's go, let's go!" Zhang Yuan greeted.

A group of elderly people hurriedly got into a car and drove on the wide road. All the residents of the city, when they saw this carload of old people, all cast admiring eyes and cheered loudly.

Not far away, in the square, there is an obelisk-like building, "dangdang" knocking. Since the sun in this area is always hanging in the sky, it is easy to confuse people's concept of time, and this Big Ben, which is the standard time in the city, stipulates the time of people's work and rest, and even, the standard time of the entire continent.

The workers' arrival at work, and the students' schooling, are determined by Big Ben's standard time.

A huge 10,000-ton ship is parked in the port. After three months of sailing, the passengers on the ship had already become impatient and felt a little sick when they saw the sea.

That's the time it takes to make a significant improvement to the route. In the early days of the wilderness, there were no lighthouses on the islands, and the depth of the surrounding waters was not thoroughly explored, and it even took six or even seven months!

The vast majority of those who come ashore are young people from the old road, and a boat ticket may be their life savings, so they may not return to their hometown for decades.

There are more opportunities to earn a living here. When they saw the New World, they swept away their previous homesickness and couldn't help but cheer.

"It's finally here, New World, New World!"

Even the babbling children are cheering along with the adults. The children all came with their parents, and there was no so-called homeland feeling.

The young queen, who was standing at the forefront, tried to step on the solid ground under her feet, and then looked at the rising sun hanging in the sky, and suddenly gave birth to an unreal sense of wonder.

“…… I don't know what kind of surprise your Excellency Duke was when he suddenly encountered this land in the vast sea! ”

"It's been a long trip."

In Boulder, the sun is never visible; Here, in New Kalundborg, however, is eternal daylight, there is no need for gas lamps, no lighting at all. Further afield, there are green crops, which have plenty of sunlight to support a larger population and livestock.

Zhang Yuan bent down, put his right hand on his chest, saluted the young queen, and kissed the queen's hand.

Faced with a living legend, the girl was slightly apprehensive.

The queen is dead, someone can take the throne, but there will always be only one such legend in the world. The man who has gone through two failures, two bankruptcies, and then got back on his feet to go on a third, more difficult exploration, a truly living legend.

A thousand years, ten thousand years from now, no one will remember the name of the Queen, but someone will inevitably remember the name of the legend.

If he dies, the whole world will mourn for him.

The young queen wandered around the new city, saw many new things, and soon fell in love with the so-called "New World".

She remembered that there were still some old stubborns in Boulder City, who despised the "nouveau riche" in the New World, and were unwilling to cross the ocean or open up new territories.

There are such stubborn people in every era, they are unwilling to change, they don't like new things. But every smart person knows that the real opportunities for the future lie in this huge new continent.

Looking at Zhang Yuan's old face, the girl smiled and asked secretly in private, "Duke Hoffmann, how did you want to discover this continent?" Your three expeditions are not just an epic of the whole world, but an epic of yours personally. Can I hear your story? ”

Zhang Yuan recalled the difficulties he had experienced in the past, and said with a smile: "This is another very, very long story......

"A good ending is going to make everyone like it, isn't it?"

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In the second reincarnation, Zhang Yuan not only discovered the New World, but also single-handedly promoted the technological revolution.

This new city is more orderly than the previous ones. At the beginning, the underground drainage system, including wider roads in the city, and various livelihood projects, consumed a lot of money, but in the following life, everyone clearly felt the convenience.

Zhang Yuan also tried to promote the development of a social system, and the new city levied higher taxes on capitalists, but most of the taxes were used for urban infrastructure. These infrastructure projects have fed a large number of ordinary people.

In fact, for the people of this era, it is good to be able to eat enough, and other things do not require too much.

The first priority of human beings is survival, and only by solving the problem of survival can we have the strength to consider other things, including education and entertainment.

On the other hand, he also founded universities, middle schools, and elementary schools, and tried to implement a five-year compulsory primary school system throughout the city. Only with more high-quality workers can we better advance the times.

Human beings in this era always have certain limitations, they would rather let their children do child labor than let them waste time going to school. But human nature is always profit-seeking, as long as they see that children only study in school for five years, their ability to earn money is far more efficient than that of illiterate, then the compulsory education system can be implemented more and more smoothly.

Through education and class change, this concept has gradually been imprinted into people's hearts and has become a universal value.

When he died, almost the entire city formed a long line and spontaneously went to say goodbye.

There is no one who is immortal, and being able to survive here for seventy or eighty years is already considered a long life.

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In fact, Zhang Yuan's wish in his heart has not been completely realized, and this world is still a capitalist society with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the upper class exploits the lower class.

Even he himself, for the sake of three expeditions, had to become a big capitalist.

Compared with a person's short life, there is too little that can be changed.

However, he himself was very satisfied with the results he had made, and thanked the world for its kindness to him and to humanity.

The total inhabitable area of this new continent is more than four times that of the previous islands combined! And there's sunlight here, and if you can grow plants, you'll be able to feed a larger population...... Even near a certain bay, oil was discovered!

In this way, the world has greater variables.

Next, how will it evolve, whether there will be a new era of "Marx" to describe the nature of capital, whether there will be "Washington" to overthrow slavery, whether the contradictions between the New World and the Old World will deepen, whether there will be war, can only be solved by the native human beings themselves.

He couldn't do that much.

There will always be more thinkers and revolutionaries in the world to promote the development of the world......

However, no matter how many heroes appear, Zhang Yuan's historical status in this world will not change in any way.

"Goodbye!"

The second reincarnation, end.

……

Zhang Yuan once again returned to the pale blue space.

"Looks like you're very happy with the trip?"

He saw the white point of view again, the artificial intelligence "Sita".

"Yes, I should be more satisfied than the previous cherry blossom world...... Zhang Yuan said with a smile.

This time I don't have much regrets.

"Human beings always like to give and get something in return. Even if it's just a psychological reward. If there is no return, the incentive to give will undoubtedly weaken a lot. ”

"What do you pay for? Exploring the ocean is hard. Know that you are not immortal, that you suffer from illness, and that you will die in the event of a storm. Even if you don't actually die, you will feel the pain. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I just like to see progress, but I don't like to see regression...... Standing still is equally uncomfortable. ”

In this space, all the memories will become very clear.

Zhang Yuan wrote a memoir about the world, what he saw and heard, analyzing the gains and losses, including whether he could do better in some details, and the future deduction that may occur in this world......

In the world of no light, the old road and the new world are too far away. From the perspective of substance, the New World is certainly not as good as the old road, which also leads the old aristocracy to faintly despise the newly born aristocracy, just as the British despised the Americans.

Now we can still cooperate because the cake has not been carved up yet, and the new world still needs the financial support of the old road. But in the future, no one likes to be exploited for a long time, and the struggle around this new continent may go on for a long, long time......

Zhang Yuan sighed, history is always meandering, and it is impossible to be smooth sailing.

There used to be four views on history on Earth: regression, progress, cycle, and spiral.

Some religions believe that history is regressive, such as the fact that the first human beings, Adam and Eve, were driven out of the heavenly Garden of Eden for stealing the fruit of wisdom. The children of Adam and Eve were born with original sin, suffering, and committing new sins. Finally, God comes again to earth to give the final judgment on sinners, and so on.

These religions believe that primitive times with saints are the best.

Ever since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, he proposed the theory of evolution. The British Spencer introduced the theory of evolution into the field of social history and put forward the "theory of social evolution", which believed that society is constantly advancing. Since then, the theory of historical progress has gradually become mainstream.

The third view is the theory of circulation, in which history is a never-ending process of separation, merging, and merging. History rises and falls along the timeline, but it will not always progress better and better, nor will it always regress and get worse, but it will continue to reincarnate good and bad.

There is a fourth view, that history is spiraling. From a local short-term point of view, it is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and even worse and worse, from the rising era to the chaotic times; But from the perspective of big history, it is getting better and better. The rise and fall of the local period is uncertain, and the decline of a certain stage does not stop, which does not affect its overall rise.

Zhang Yuan sighed, there are no absolutes, history is always complicated, and it is difficult to really objectively summarize the simple rise or fall.

Immediately afterwards, he started his third reincarnation.

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The third reincarnation was reincarnated into a technologically advanced world, just like the earth civilization in the past, human beings have occupied the entire solar system, but there is no longer the motivation to explore the outside world, and they have fallen into class solidification.

All reincarnations have a very good birth, and Zhang Yuan was born again in an upper class.

In this reincarnation, he spent his whole life building a spaceship and flying his body to a distant place where there could be no aliens.

In the fourth reincarnation, reincarnated in a world where the red regime collapsed, human civilization lost its way......

This time it was even more difficult, Zhang Yuan deeply felt the malice of Pangu Brain artificial intelligence "Sita......

The fifth reincarnation, a deep-rooted dictatorship, ruled the entire world......

The era when there was no light at all, and it was easy to be imprisoned in a concentration camp if you were not careful......

After five reincarnations, Zhang Yuan was judged to have passed the assessment by "Sita" and kicked him out of the virtual world in advance.

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